It's laughable how misinformed you are about the robotic surgery space. My goodness I have been wondering about you for a while, but this post 100% proves you're clueless.
As a robotic surgeon, I can tell you really have no knowledge about what is actually going on in healthcare. There is enormous data to support robotic assisted surgery. Do some pubmed research. Better yet, show me some peer reviewed publications that show "enormous negative data." Please. I'll wait.
And training issues? Titan's interface is very similar to Intuitive's system. Ask any medical student going into OB/GYN or Urology today what is important to them. The overwhelming majority will say robotics training. It's not just the future. It's now. Every good residency program out there has a robust robotic experience. Coming out of residency in 2018 without robotics training is an anomaly, not the norm. There is no issue with training the next generation of robotic surgeons.
And I robotically perform a particular surgery routinely that can be done laparoscopically. Why? The patients want the robot, and robotically is easier on my body with better vision than pure laparoscopy. Does medicare or private insurance ever deny those surgeries? Not once. Why? The massive difference in cost isn't there. Disposables for the robot aren't much more than disposables for a pure laparoscopic surgery. The capital cost of a robot is stretched out over many many years. Again, you simply don't know what you don't know.
"Their SP and articulating arm design leaves them in the abdominal space where there is strong established competition and mature pipelines in place. "
What?? I don't even know where to start here.
